A major symposium at this year’s South African International Film Festival will bring leading African filmmakers into contact with their local counterparts. William Pretorius reports HISTORY will be made at the “Across the Continent” symposium when, for the first time ever, filmmakers from all over Africa get together in South Africa. Hosted by the South […]

STREETBALL: Mapula Sibanda IT was more than passing ball at Bruma Lake when the first of the four Nandos countrywide Streetball Challenge tournaments kicked off last Sunday. It was also a day of fun and festivities for the whole family. Parents acting as coaches for the day shouted and cheered for their young ones, as […]

Arts Alive visiting pianist Jon Jang unites West and East in his music. He spoke to Gwen Ansell DUKE ELLINGTON, as usual, got there first with his Far East Suite in the mid-1960s. Since then, enough jazz musicians have looked East to staff a big band, from John Coltrane to John Zorn. United States West […]

RUGBY: Jon Swift THE thing you have to admire most about South African coach Kitch Christie is that in his own quietly determined way he gets what he wants. Evidence enough of this is Ray Mordt’s inclusion as his deputy — no matter what title the former union test great and rugby league star carries […]

An exhibition running in Johannesburg rediscovers six `lost’ South African photographers, writes Hazel Friedman `WITHIN the black zone, every square inch is occupied … It’s like being buried in people. Their shoulders, hips, bellies and buttocks press against yours. You cannot shift your weight or raise an arm or turn around without displacing the various […]

Weekly Mail Reporter POLICE in Cape Town are investigating charges of assault against MP Tony Yengeni, after a man suspected to be implicated in the murder of Yengeni’s bodyguard was allegedly beaten before being handed over to the police. Chumi Siyeka was one of five people picked up on June 1 in connection with the […]

THE royal battle between Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi and his rivals has grown bitter. Buthelezi last week pointed fingers at “latter-day busy-bodies” who were in the “forefront” of campaigns to “villify”him. He was referring to other players in the royal battle: Prince Clement. A former Iscor employee, he is now based inside the Royal Palace and […]

CINEMA: Fabius Burger Lars von Trier’s Zentropa is, in a way, about speed — most of the film takes place on a train. But at least some members of the audience will fall asleep: the opening sequence is a mesmerising, extended shot of railway tracks, with narrator Max von Sydow hypnotising us, taking us into […]

The political parties will gain R1,5m a month from a new proposal to pass on state subsidies. Chris Louw reports A SCHEME to give political parties large state subsidies is being slipped quietly into place in the guise of a “constituent’s allowance”. The plan, approved by the Speaker of Parliament and put to the Cabinet […]

GOLF: Jon Swift IT IS often difficult to get Brent Chalmers, tour director of the FNB professional golf tour, to be as moderate in his approach as to call a spade a shovel. He has never hesitated to say exactly what he thinks. It is, in an era of sports administration doublespeak, an often admirable […]